The policy of sending Filipino workers overseas began in the mid-1970s as a stopgap measure during economic slowdowns and has since become a permanent fixture due to various economic and social factors. It caters to a wide range of professions, from construction workers to IT professionals.
THE policy of sending Filipino workers overseas aims to give them jobs in labor-scarce countries during periods of economic slowdown . It started in the mid-1970s to the 1980s and expanded rapidly from the 1990s to the 2000s. The late labor minister Blas Ople was the first to introduce it as a stopgap measure when there was a job-supply contraction in the economy.
There are one in four OFWs working in cargo ships and luxury vessels sailing pirate-infested and Houthi-operated waters like the Red Sea, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. In August 2024, a Greek-flagged oil tanker, which had Filipino seafarers onboard, was attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels in retaliation for Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
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